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To: Dr. Id who wrote (135873)	6/7/2004 12:35:00 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

No, I think 'our' bombing takes great care not to blow up families at pizzerias. When we were bombing Saddam's palaces, people were still out in the streets of Baghdad, knowing that the bombing was aimed elsewhere. It is the al Qaeda terrorists who came later, they are the ones blowing up the markets of Baghdad. Certainly, some mistakes will happen. But a mistake is not terrorism, just as an accidental homicide is not murder 1. He replies (and I'm paraphrasing...) that if they had planes, they would drop their bombs from the air and would never plant any more bombs. Sure, if Hamas had planes, they would carpet bomb Tel Aviv. Israel has planes - but is not, for some reason, carpet bombing Gaza City. Have you noticed? Can you explain why? Or don't you even care? The reason that we can't have a more nuanced conversation of the merits and faults of both sides is that you have consistently failed to take the first necessary step of noticing that the two sides are different. Different in purpose, different in method. There will be a point (probably after a regime change in Israel) where a reasonable leader will take a longer look and try to understand the bigger picture Shamir, Rabin, Perez, Netanyahu, Barak, Sharon. In the last 15 years there have been six Israeli prime ministers. On the Palestinian side, it has been Arafat all the way. Why are you so convinced that a new Israeli PM is what's needed? Wouldn't it be a change to see what a new Palestinian leadership might do or say? Just right off the bat, a new Palestinian leadership would get some benefit of the doubt - its promises wouldn't have been alredy proved totally worthless - wouldn't that be an improvement? Don't you think some Palestinian democracy, much desired by the Palestinians, according to Shikaki's polls, would be a change for the better? What does it matter who leads Israel while Arafat still controls the guns and money?